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Ryan Stokes, Terrance Bridges, Cameron Lamb, and Donnie Sanders are some of the people memorialized by protesters in Kansas City. A Kansas City Star reporter recounts the history of violence between police and black men here.

A check-in on the the well-being of nurses working through the pandemic, incarcerated folks say health and safety recommendations are being ignored in Kansas prisons, and how a smartphone app could ease the labor of tracking positive COVID-19 cases.

Last weekend's protests in Kansas City over police violence against black people had both peaceful and volatile moments, and long-standing health disparities are causing black Kansans and Missourians to die from COVID-19 at five to seven times the rate of white residents.